An overnight fire early Monday morning at McGavock High School’s baseball field left the team with no concession stand.

And a set of commemorative bricks may be ruined with paint, too. Both, team coaches believe, the work of vandals.

Now, baseball coach Kevin Holt and others at the school are asking for the public’s help rebuilding and finding those responsible.

Holt said neighbors near the field heard the Nashville Fire Department arrive at the blaze about 3 a.m. Monday after someone attempted to break into the concession stand overnight.

“I wanted to think it was an electrical fire,” Holt said Monday night of the concession fire. “But then there was the paint.”

In the same vandalism hit, someone took a gallon can of blue paint and splashed the row of donor and alumni bricks below the stands, Holt said.

Holt said that it appeared as if someone had tried to take the concession stand door off its hinges, but was unable to break through the two sets of padlocks the coaches attached to the door when someone broke in earlier this year and stole candy and soda.

“The fire started on the opposite side (of the electrical outlets) and there was some sort of accelerant used,” he said. “I guess they were upset that they couldn’t get back in so they burned it down.”

Paint cans had been used to prop open the door of the field’s press box, Holt said. Vandals appear to have thrown the paint over the railing onto the bricks.

Assistant principals have made contact with Metro Department of Maintenance to get the bricks pressure washed, though some of the engraved bricks may be ruined nonetheless, Holt said.

Holt and fellow coaches are calling on the public for help through social media to identify the person as well as to rebuild their concession stand.

“We’re also asking alumni to donate raw materials to put up cinder block or something less flammable,” he said. “We’re just trying to get the word out if you hear anything, let us know or contact the police. If it is a younger person, they may be bragging on social media.”